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Here a roundup of today's reviews and articles:

Accell Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review
Arctic Z2-3D Dual Monitor Arm Review
ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 STRIX OC 8 GB Review
August Smart Lock Pro Review
Book of Demons
Drevo Blademaster TE Mechanical Keyboard Review
Ever Wondered How Those Computer-Controlled Christmas Light Displays Work?
Fedora 29, second test - Old laptop & Nvidia graphics
Final Fantasy XV DLSS versus TAA IQ and Performance Analysis
Game Max Phantom RGB Tempered Glass Chassis Review
GIGABYTE AORUS K9 Review
Intel Foveros To Usher In Industry First 3D Stacked System On A Chip Designs
Intel talks about its architectural vision for the future
Intel Unveils 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Architecture With Gen11 Graphics, Major Performance Lift
Intel Unveils Sunny Cove, Gen11 Graphics, Xe Discrete GPU, 3D Stacking
Just Cause 4 Review
Mobvoi TicWatch Pro Review
Noctua NA-SFMA1 140mm Fan Adapter Review
Patriot Viper Steel Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-4400MHz Memory Kit Review
Shuttle XPC Slim Barebone XH310 Review
Synology MR2200ac Mesh Router Review



Accell Thunderbolt 3 Dock Review

We haven't seen too many products come through from Accell, but with the booming Thunderbolt 3 market, they have decided to dip their toes in with a Thunderbolt 3 Dock of their own.

Read full article @ TweakTown

Arctic Z2-3D Dual Monitor Arm Review

When you make the jump from a single monitor to dual monitors you’ll notice that a lot of real estate on your desk is taken up by these monitors and their stands. Also many monitor stands are junk and do not offer much in terms or adjusting viewing angles of your monitor. That is where a monitor arm comes in, it removes the stand giving you back that room on your desk and offers far more adjustment. Today we have the Z2-3D monitor arm from Arctic. It supports two monitors up to 27-inches, offers tilt, swivel, and rotation adjustments, and even comes with a USB 3.0 hub. Let’s get some monitors on the Z2-3D and see what it can do!

Read full article @ ThinkComputers.org

ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 STRIX OC 8 GB Review

The ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 STRIX OC is a custom-design variant using a large triple slot cooler that delivers excellent temperatures or very low noise levels, thanks to the inclusion of a dual BIOS feature, which offers a "quiet" mode. ASUS has also upgraded the power delivery capability of their card to 8-phase with 6+8-pin power input.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

August Smart Lock Pro Review

The 3rd generation August Smart Lock, now labeled as Pro, has all of the features of the 2nd generation lock plus it adds DoorSense Technology and Z-Wave Plus. DoorSense is a clever sensor used to determine if your door is closed. Z-Wave Plus allows you to connect this lock to a multitude of home automation hubs to directly integrate its operation with other smart devices in your home.

Read full article @ Bigbruin.com

Book of Demons

Book of Demons is a delightful little papercraft dungeon crawler by developers Thing Trunk. It has plenty of full fat features in typical diabolical dungeon crawler style, but uses cards as items and skills, which are used in live instead of turn-based combat. It's also everything I hoped and dreamed for in such a format.

Read full article @ TechPowerUp

Drevo Blademaster TE Mechanical Keyboard Review

Mechanical keyboards are a dime a dozen these days it seems. No matter where you look there is a company making a newer type of keyboard with the latest and greatest in RGB and switches. Enter Drevo, a company who has the most backed keyboard ever funded through Kickstarter. Here is our review of the Drevo Blademaster TE Mechanical Keyboard.

Read full article @ MMORPG

Ever Wondered How Those Computer-Controlled Christmas Light Displays Work?

Depending on where you live, you've likely seen a house with crazy flashing Christmas lights that change color and dance to music. Almost every neighborhood or town has "that one house" that goes all out for the holidays each year. In my neighborhood, that house is mine.

Read full article @ TechSpot

Fedora 29, second test - Old laptop & Nvidia graphics

Hats off, hats on. Now, 'tis time for a long, thorough review of Fedora 29 Gnome, tested in a dual-boot configuration on an old laptop with Nvidia graphics, covering live session, installation and post-install use and tweaks, including look & feel, networking - Wireless, Bluetooth, Samba sharing, printing, multimedia - MP3 and HD video, smartphone cnnectivity - Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, partitioning, package management, applications and extras, customization, fonts, performance, responsiveness, resource usage, hardware compatibility, system stability, Nvidia drivers setup, several big problems and bugs, and more. Have fun.

Read full article @ Dedoimedo

Final Fantasy XV DLSS versus TAA IQ and Performance Analysis

Final Fantasy XV DLSS versus TAA and Image Quality and Performance Analysis This Final Fantasy XV DLSS patch, image quality, and performance analysis is a follow-up to BTRs Game and Performance Review. 

Read full article @ BabelTechReviews

Game Max Phantom RGB Tempered Glass Chassis Review

Game Max Phantom Weve reviewed so many Game Max chassis in recent history its hard to keep track. Theyve got some of the best value chassis on the market when it comes to shopping under £50, and theyre impressive too.

Read full article @ eTeknix

GIGABYTE AORUS K9 Review

Well, right out of the box the AORUS K9 has some features other keyboards wish they had. One of these features is having the ability to remove the entire switch, this is something we rarely see, but it's a very interesting feature.

Read full article @ Vortez

Intel Foveros To Usher In Industry First 3D Stacked System On A Chip Designs

Intel held an Architecture Day in Los Altos yesterday, where it disclosed a number of details regarding next-generation CPU and GPU architectures and manufacturing process technologies. In addition to the technical disclosures divulged to an exclusive group of attendees, Intel also talked about a shift in the company’s design and engineering model based on six strategic pillars -- Process, Architecture, Memory, Interconnect, Security, and Software – which it hopes will allow it to better address the needs of the current computing landscape moving forward. In addition to the architecture and roadmap news, Intel also talked about a new, very interesting 3D packaging technology it is calling “Foveros”...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Intel talks about its architectural vision for the future

In perhaps its most wide-ranging and technically dazzling display in years, Intel offered us a look into its direction as an integrated device manufacturing company steered in part by the architectural leadership of luminaries Raja Koduri and Jim Keller. The company brought a small group to the former estate of Intel founder Robert Noyce to set the stage for a detailed look at how it plans to yoke its vast range of technology into a coherent whole for its future. Before we go any further, I have to note that Intel opened a firehose of information for us, and the embargo window for that information was quite abbreviated.

Read full article @ The Tech Report

Intel Unveils 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Architecture With Gen11 Graphics, Major Performance Lift

Intel held its 2018 “Architecture Day” yesterday, where top execs plotted out the company’s direction for architecture and product roadmaps in the near-future and further out on the horizon. The event was held at a home once owned by Robert Noyce. Noyce, known as the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" back in the day, co-founded Intel in 1968 with Gordon Moore. This mansion setting was a perfect backdrop for Intel to underscore its new direction for the analysts and journalists in attendance. Intel has been under intense pressure due to delays of volume ramp of its 10nm process fabricated CPU products, but the company apparently has more than a few tricks up its sleeve to stay ahead of the competition in both the consumer and server markets...

Read full article @ HotHardware

Intel Unveils Sunny Cove, Gen11 Graphics, Xe Discrete GPU, 3D Stacking

Intel unveiled the new Sunny Cove CPU architecture, Gen11 integrated graphics, 'Foveros' 3D chip stacking technology, and teased the Xe line of graphics cards.

Read full article @ Tom's Hardware

Just Cause 4 Review

Is there a good reason to get Just Cause 4? I think so, but I also think some might be happier waiting for a sale on it. Hey, I have enjoyed the game, but I still feel I should add that qualification because at times it felt rather familiar, like the previous Just Cause games, and that makes it harder to say it is a buy-it-now experience. If you have enjoyed the previous games, or just want a fun and explosion filled experience, I think you will be satisfied here.

Read full article @ OCC

Mobvoi TicWatch Pro Review

Most of us know Smartwatch manufacturers like Apple, Fitbit, Fossil, Garmin, Huawei, MyKronoz, Pebble or Samsung, of which we have tested for example the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier, but probably very few know Mobvoi. Mobvoi has developed something very special: a Smartwatch display consisting of two layers, which can be selected manually or automatically! The OLED display offers the full Wear OS by Google Smartwatch functionality and the transparent LCD layer above is extremely power saving. In the following Smartwatch review on OCinside.de we find out how well the combination of both displays has been successful and how long the battery lasts.

Read full article @ OCinside

Noctua NA-SFMA1 140mm Fan Adapter Review

Earlier this year Noctua released the NA-SFMA1 140mm Fan Adapter along with other products like their newest 120mm fan, the NF-A12x25. We took a look at them both to see if the pairing performs as well as we are told to expect.

Read full article @ Play3r

Patriot Viper Steel Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-4400MHz Memory Kit Review

Today, thanks to Patriot, well be taking a quick look at thePatriot Viper Steel Series 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-4400MHz Memory Kit Review

Read full article @ FunkyKit

Shuttle XPC Slim Barebone XH310 Review

The 3-litre, XH310 slim barebone from Shuttle is very flexible in terms of configuration and supports the latest Coffee Lake Intel processors.

Read full article @ Mad Shrimps

Synology MR2200ac Mesh Router Review

Mesh networks have been around for quite some time. There are numerous brands out there and they all provide pretty much the same thing, WiFi Coverage. Some do a very good job at covering large areas and some not so much. Almost all of the routers/mesh routers support multiple Security levels that protect you from the potential breaches.

Read full article @ Modders-Inc